Cloud Intelligence-Senior Solutions Architect

Basic Infomation

Department:

AliCloud Intelligence Group

Degree:

Bachelor

Work Experience:

8 year

Job Description

1. Customer Engagement and Implementation Support
   Partner closely with customers to ensure successful architecture, migration, and deployment of applications and services on Alibaba Cloud—especially for full-stack scenarios.
   Guide enterprises through data-driven digital transformation and large-scale site migrations (Site Migration).
2. Innovation and End-to-End Solution Design
   Leverage deep industry expertise to challenge existing paradigms, drive innovation, and foster divergent thinking within client accounts.
   Understand customers' unique business requirements and design tailored, end-to-end cloud solutions using Alibaba Cloud's "Seven Core Products/Full Stack" (Compute, Storage, Network, Security, Big Data, AI, Database).
   Drive solution wins and own architecture governance to ensure high availability, high concurrency, and reliable delivery at scale.
3. Strategic Planning and Analysis
   Produce comprehensive market analyses and multi-cloud architecture studies to identify trends, opportunities, and pain points within segmented industries.
   Gather competitive intelligence to craft differentiated multi-cloud offerings.
   Lead technical strategic planning, author white papers, case studies, and deliver conference presentations to amplify Alibaba Cloud's technical influence.
4. Pre-Sales Support and Business Development
   Engage in pre-sales activities with key decision-makers: build trust, uncover actual needs, and develop compelling business cases.
   Conduct thorough assessments of customers' existing large-scale website operations and technical architectures (including multi-cloud landscapes), document current state and transformation goals, and shape migration-to-cloud strategies.
5. Solution Promotion and Risk Management
   Tailor solutions to customer requirements: optimize product selection, site migration plans (Site Migration), POC strategies, RFP responses, and product configurations to secure contracts and increase Alibaba Cloud's market share.
   Incubate and scale public cloud solutions in vertical or niche fields while overseeing risk management throughout implementation.
6. Capability Building and Knowledge Sharing
   Build and maintain a comprehensive full-stack cloud architecture knowledge base: architecture templates, best practices, migration playbooks, and case studies.
   Deliver training and enablement materials to sales teams, ecosystem partners, and customer technical teams, sharing best practices for multi-cloud and AI.
7. Product Development Feedback
   Collect and relay product requirements, pain points, and enhancement requests from large-scale site migrations and multi-cloud scenarios to drive improvements in Alibaba Cloud's "Seven Core Products/Full Stack" and AI offerings.

Position Requirement

Education
Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field with solid understanding of cloud infrastructure, data technologies, and enterprise applications.
Experience
Minimum of 8 years' experience in operating and architecting large-scale websites, with proven end-to-end site migration (Site Migration) delivery.
Extensive background in data analytics, AI technologies, and enterprise industry solutions is preferred.
Full-Stack & Cloud Platform Expertise
Full-stack capabilities: proficient in front-end, back-end, and DevOps.
Hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud at scale—delivering and operating distributed, high-concurrency systems.
Big Data Frameworks & Technologies
Deep knowledge of mainstream big data frameworks and technologies; expertise in at least five of the following: Hadoop, Spark, Blink, Flink, Zookeeper, HBase, Hive, Flume, Kafka, Sqoop, MapReduce, HDFS, Pig, or Presto.
Experience with database and data warehousing solutions (Redis, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL) and machine learning tools. Familiarity with Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute, DataWorks, EMR, and PAI strongly preferred.
Multi-Cloud Architecture & AI
Solid understanding of -cloud and multi-cloud architectures; able to design, deploy, and operate systems across multiple cloud providers.
Familiarity with mainstream AI frameworks and platforms (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch, Alibaba Cloud PAI); hands-on AI project experience is a plus.
Teamwork & Communication
Proven ability to collaborate in cross-functional, distributed teams.
Strong project management skills and execution capability under tight deadlines.
Language Proficiency
Excellent written and spoken English; Chinese language proficiency is a plus to facilitate communication with China-based teams and local customers.
Bonus Qualifications
Experience in high-traffic e-commerce, social media, or streaming platforms.
Proficiency with Kubernetes, containerization, and microservices governance.
Possession of cloud architect certifications (Alibaba Cloud, AWS, or equivalent).